while we're at it.....Bob, as you're doing a clean install, try this on your old machine.

Start, Run and type

msconfig

when it loads, go to the tab on the right that says Start Up.
Count the things that load on boot up.
When XP is fresh, no drivers etc...it has zero entries.
Every time you install summit, drivers or whatever, check it again, google the item and see if it's needed.
And dont let anyone install stuff like Quick Time without you disabling all the assosciated cack with it.

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I hate doing fresh installs thats why I have a section on my D drive called Storage where I have all the apps and patches that I use when I do a refresh install, quickalternative and real alternative are both in there Bob

What about when you just reinstall it on the same hardware?
I reinstall my XP about 3/4 times a year, might actually get round to just imaging the drive next tiome when its done and just resetting it to where it was post install just after activation...

Basically it's a change from the XP license, at the mo you can reinstall XP happy as larry as many times as you like (though you may need to phone MS when you change hardware) providing you no longer have it installed on whatever machine it was previously installed on (i.e. no multiple installs.. duh.)

With Vista you are only allowed to do this twice. (1st install, then one transfer)

Here’s the exact text: “The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time.” That means that if you purchase a copy of Vista at retail—be it the $200 Home Basic or the $400 Vista Ultimate package—you have the right to install that OS on one machine. When you retire that machine, you can install the OS on a second PC, but that’s it.

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